by Heather Brandon | Jan 10, 2007 | Urban Compass
Last month, Springfield Police Commissioner Edward Flynn and his chief of staff, Jennifer Flagg, sat down to meet with attorney Donald Stern, who served as chair of Governor Deval Patrick’s transition working group on public safety. The final report (PDF) of...
by Frank Dodge | Jan 10, 2007 | The Dodge Report
There has been a lot of hullaballoo abt polar bears lately. I understand they are having a hard time up there in the arctic what with the melting icecaps and such, but do they have it any harder than folks in Detroit or Ohio or even at the Delco hairbrush factory that...
by James Heflin | Jan 10, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Sometimes the best you can say of my home state is that it’s got a flamboyant sense of style like few other places. In this case, even the anti-Muslim push in Katy, Texas is utterly Texan: the guy who lives next to a proposed mosque site is throwing pig races on...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 10, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
“Sincerity, writes Patterson, “requires us to act and really be the way that we present ourselves to others. Authenticity involves finding and expressing the true inner self and judging all relationships in terms of it.”” The Orlando Patterson...
by Dear Dexter | Jan 10, 2007 | Dear Dexter
[This is an advance copy of the note that will appear in this week’s paper in lieu of my column]Dear Readers,As of this week, I’m dissolving my corporeal body and uploading my consciousness to a systemcomprised of linked together...